GOW RANT – Why are some job applications not acknowledged? There is no excuse!

Have you ever applied for a job and not received a reply? Especially after you have invested considerable time and trouble writing your letter of application, knowing that your expertise dovetails so precisely with the experience and skills laid out in the job description.

You can make all sorts of excuses for employers. Short staffed, that is why they are recruiting in the first place. Hundreds of applications, you can’t respond to everybody. But you can. Of course you can! In this day and age there is no excuse? How long does it take to write a basic email? Then ping the same email to all the 100% group of applicants who not only failed to get the job, but didn’t make it through to the interview stage.

Thank you very much for applying for the position of Blogger with Lost Blogs.

We very much appreciated the opportunity to consider you for a position on our team. We’ve reviewed your background and experience and have decided to proceed with other candidates who meet our needs more closely at this time. This was an extremely competitive process and we received hundreds of applications. This was definitely a tough decision for us, as you were a solid candidate.

We would like to wish you a every success with your future career.

The answer is no time at all. So, however large or small any potential employer’s organisation is, there is absolutely no excuse not to dignify any job application with a response.

Brian Trubshaw – Test Pilot

BRIAN TRUBSHAW was chief test pilot of the British prototype Concorde 002 during its development phase. He was regarded as one of Britain’s most famous names in aviation. As test pilot for Vickers-Armstrongs he test flew the Viscount, the Valiant, the VC10 and Super VC10. He test flew the 1-11 for the British Aircraft Corporation before reaching the pinnacle of his career as Chief Test Pilot for of Concorde. In 1980 he became Director and General Manager of Filton until he retired in 1986, but remained on the board of the Civil Aviation Authority, until his death in 2001.

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